INTASC+Standard+08

**INTASC Standard 8** The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.


 * Specific Category of Standard 8**


 * **INTASC.8.B** || K: The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. ||

**Understanding Sentence** The teacher use a variety of assessments to show constant and continued growth of his/her students.


 * Artifacts **
 * // Indirect Lesson Plan //
 * //Direct Lesson Plan//

**Reflect**

My Direct and Indirect Lesson Plans that I created with a group represent INTASC Standard 8.B.K. I have used these two lessons as an example of assessing students because in through both lessons there is formal and informal assessment. During the guided practice portion of the lesson children’s progress is being assessed and whether they got the concept or not. Obviously if they are struggling with the concepts at this stage something was missed and as the teacher I would need to go back and teach. Then during the independent practice while monitoring children you can conduct more informal assessments. And finally the end result or final project could be formal assessed and graded to assess whether the student got the concepts and was able to apply them as required. Both of these types of assessment are vital to children. Not everything can be understood or obtained from a sit down standardized test and not all children will excel that way.


 * Project **

This artifact shows that my ever evolving philosophy stems from a place of meeting different needs. Children need to have a variety of ways to show that they get and understand a topic. Formal assessments are important. We learn vital things from standardized tests, subject tests or classroom tests, and graded papers and other formal materials, but there is a time and a place for that type of assessment. Often children and the teacher benefit from informal assessments. While they are not as structured as formal assessments they still give a base to go from to help children. As a teacher is patrolling a class monitoring children’s progress a teacher can catch that Jimmy forgets to carry when he is adding double digit numbers or that Susie always spells “dog” as “god” and maybe she has a decoding or dyslexia issue. Either way, such examples as these are great things to catch while you are doing practice or projects on the day to day instead of waiting until a test comes along and possible catching the issue. Do not get me wrong, as I said earlier, the formal assessment is important, but as I have been growing in my personal philosophy I have come to understand the relevance of informal assessment too.